Quasicrystals: a primer
In 1984 physicists discovered a monster in the world of crystallography, a structure that appeared to contain five-fold symmetry axes, which cannot exist in strictly periodic structures. Such quasi-periodic structures became known as quasicrystals. A previously formulated theory in terms of higher dimensional space groups was applied to them and new alloy phases were prepared which exhibited the properties expected from this model more closely. Thus many of the early controversieswere dissolved…
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- Full title :Quasicrystals : a primer / C. Janot.
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In 1984 physicists discovered a monster in the world of crystallography, a structure that appeared to contain five-fold symmetry axes, which cannot exist in strictly periodic structures. Such quasi-periodic structures became known as quasicrystals. A previously formulated theory in terms of higher dimensional space groups was applied to them and new alloy phases were prepared which exhibited the properties expected from this model more closely. Thus many of the early controversieswere dissolved. In 2011, the Nobel Prize for Chemistry was awarded to Dan Shechtman for the discovery of quasicryst.
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- Publication Date:1997, ©1994.
- Edition:2nd ed
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- Publisher(s):Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:Oxford
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:1997, ©1994.
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"First published in paperback 1997"--Verso de la page de titre.
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- Description:1 ressource en ligne (xvi, 409 pages) : : illustrations.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0191021792, 9780191021794, 1299975658, 9781299975651
- oclc:on1004032914
- LC Classification:QC173.4.Q36
- Dewey Decimal:548.81
Table of Contents
Cover; Contents; 1 How to fill with atoms in condensed matter states; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Periodic structures; 1.2.1 Lattices, cells, bases, and space groups; 1.2.2 Atomic planes, rows, and indices; 1.2.3 The reciprocal lattice; 1.2.4 Experimental determination of crystal structures; 1.2.5 The notion of forbidden symmetries; 1.3 Liquids, glasses, and amorphous alloys; 1.3.1 Description of 'disordered' systems; 1.3.2 Diffraction with disordered systems; 1.4 Quasiperiodicity: another type of long-range order; 1.4.1 A one-dimensional example of non-periodic long-range order.
1.4.2 The sharp diffraction peaks of a Fibonacci chain1.4.3 Orientational order in quasicrystals; 1.4.4 Direct quasiperiodic space tiling procedures; 1.4.5 Quasiperiodicity as generated by projection or cut from higher dimensional space; 1.4.6 Modulated crystals and quasicrystals; 1.5 Problems; References; 2 Meal quasicrystals: preparation and characterization; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Preparation methods; 2.2.1 The melt spinning technique; 2.2.2 Other production techniques for metastable quasicrystals; 2.2.3 Conventional casting; 2.3 Characterization of quasicrystalline samples.
2.3.1 Electron, X-ray, and neutr…
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